Reviews tagging 'Racism'

In Limbo by Deb JJ Lee

77 reviews

aformeracceleratedreader's review against another edition

medium-paced

2.75

A memoir that was heavier than I expected. Touches on lots of topics so check trigger/content warnings.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Medical content, Grief, Suicide attempt, and Gaslighting

bethebluebook's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad tense slow-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

bookwyrmjulia's review against another edition

dark emotional reflective slow-paced

5.0

Beautiful, evocative art. Lots of sad, but their life story does have some hope, so I found this story to be one that resonates without being too triggering.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Racism, Self harm, and Suicide attempt

rainbowbrarian's review against another edition

dark emotional medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Self harm, Medical content, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

Moderate: Self harm

fernakat's review against another edition

dark emotional sad fast-paced

3.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Racism

tilder's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional reflective sad tense medium-paced

4.75

Beautiful art, based on a true story, I think that I still have some questions about what happened but because it’s based off of the authors life I think that’s the point!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

chainingbooks's review against another edition

emotional hopeful reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Racism, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Bullying

questingnotcoasting's review against another edition

emotional reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

I thought this was such a beautiful read, mostly because I really loved the illustrations. I loved the way using one colour highlighted the textures and the blue theme matched the melancholy tone of the story perfectly - it's slow paced and it's a very personal coming of age narrative, dealing with some heavy themes. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Child abuse, Mental illness, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Body shaming

novella42's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional hopeful sad fast-paced

5.0

Powerful. It's always so heartbreaking to me that I can read a graphic novel in two hours, that took the author/illustrator a FIFTH of their life to create. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Domestic abuse, Racism, Self harm, Suicidal thoughts, Xenophobia, Suicide attempt, and Toxic friendship

rogue_leader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.0

Booktalk:

Caught between her American upbringing and her Korean roots, Jung-Jin Lee, who goes by Deborah, is struggling with transitioning into high school. She is struggling with a mother who has unrealistically high expectations and falters between supportive and abusive. Deborah ultimately discovers her love of art and makes a new friend. This book is sometime hard to read but is a powerful look into what being an immigrant and a high school student can be like.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Bullying, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Physical abuse, Racism, Xenophobia, and Suicide attempt